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Umbworld

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Noun
  1. 1
    The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment. neologism

    "Religion has grown out of our folk knowledge, out of our group explanations of the how’s and why’s of the umbworld."

Etymology

From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.

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